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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

A way for consumers to stay up-to-date with the brand, hear about special offers, and occasionally advocate to their friends. Won’t we soon see forms that ask us to choose one or all of these contact methods: Email newsletter Blog (via RSS or email) Twitter Facebook Remember, social media is an ingredient, not an entree.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Your photo was bigger and I am all for brand equity. Marc Keep your brand (logo) clear of any intrusions like images, color transitions and search boxes. All three could work but you have to eliminate clutter around your C & C brand. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That’s the brand engagement holy grail that we’re all seeking. Working on campaigns for several clients and its been a slow haul, especially for a new brand. Working on campaigns for several clients and its been a slow haul, especially for a new brand. It’s about humanization.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time.

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JULY 28, 2010

link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C. link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success.

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JUNE 22, 2010

If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. You have to work on a pilot program – maybe even in secret – to show social media’s impact on customer satisfaction. It has to come from you.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

What’s the soul of your brand. You may need to engage in some brand anthropology, and have an agency help you find your one thing. Many brands these days use social media to promote themselves and to reach out to their target audience. I have subscribed to your rss feed as well. What’s Your One Thing?

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JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. It's one of the most common forms of communication between brands and consumers. October 2007. March 2009. So is email immortal?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

• Competitive analysis: How does your brand stack up to the competition? • On-going monitoring: What are people saying about your brand and how can you use that information to either repair your reputation or identify opportunities? How can your brand participate in this space most effectively? Hope that helps!

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MARCH 22, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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MARCH 16, 2010

I think twitter is more of a heavily curated rss reader/feeder rather than a portal, and I suspect that presenting twitter to new users as more of a friendly way to use rss that as a way to push conversation with strangers would help quite a bit. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

The trick with websites is the never-ending need to feed the monster, through search optimization, public relations, banner ads, skywriting, or whatever other means you’ve devised to let people know that your site is out there and worthy of attention. Facebook is seriously becoming a powerhouse tool though.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

The trick with websites is the never-ending need to feed the monster, through search optimization, public relations, banner ads, skywriting, or whatever other means you’ve devised to let people know that your site is out there and worthy of attention. Facebook is seriously becoming a powerhouse tool though.

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APRIL 8, 2010

When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). My presenation “ 7 Ways to Build Stunning Business and Personal Brands in Social Media &# was originally given in person to 35 people. Disclaimer: I tweet and blog for the company.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps The More Things Change, The More Things Change philsimonsystems Pretty neat tool. It's weird on RSS.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). My presenation “ 7 Ways to Build Stunning Business and Personal Brands in Social Media &# was originally given in person to 35 people. Disclaimer: I tweet and blog for the company.

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JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced more by specific, hyper-relevant pieces of content that your brand creates to get in front of potential purchasers at the contextually-perfect time and place. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. There is of course a limit to this logic.

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